An introverted delivery boy befriends a shy but intimidating shut-in who happens to be his favorite VTuber IRL!
Being a delivery boy for "Delivery Eats" in a rural town isn't so bad, but one regular customer is a BIG challenge. She's a scary lady who looks intimidating and glares at the delivery boy every time he shows up at her door. Being an introvert, he can't help but run away as soon as the job is done. But one day, the scary lady finally speaks... Wait, is that the voice of his favorite VTuber?!
Are all the new series I check out this week going to feature their female leads’ breasts as the primary focal point? With only one left in my queue after this, the odds are not looking good.
This is… surprisingly dull, if we’re being honest. It features a giant woman with social anxiety and a small guy. That… is basically it. She’s a vtuber (albeit a very boring one, to be blunt) and he delivers food while loving her vtuber persona. Naturally he doesn’t realize that she’s the vtuber in question.
There are a couple of things I liked here. Our female lead, who remains as nameless as our male lead, has an amazing repertoire of facial expressions and they’re basically the best art in the book.
Further, they actually address the problems that can stem from being judged for having oversized breasts, which is a route that many, many more manga could stand to examine. I mean, she’s absolutely being exploited by the author, but it’s a start.
The delivery guy is… nice. He tries to encourage her, even though her social anxiety is so incredibly bad that she needs both therapy and medication and not the dude who swings by with the karaage, no matter how they want to frame it.
He wildly misinterprets things at times, thinking she’s about to murder him (but entering her home anyway, which is like asking for a Darwin Award). This appears to be the bulk of the humour, or the attempts at it anyway. This is… not funny. Well, maybe the futon bit.
I hesitate to call this dire, it is trying hard and it gets… maybe an eighth better by the time it ends. But there’s so little here and what is there is kind of cringe, but not in the goofy cringe comedy sort of way.
If [female]’s vtuber persona had any sort of definition, maybe. If there were consistent good jokes, sure. Even the fanservice is underwhelming if you’re after that.
There’s nothing fun about somebody so clearly traumatized and petrified to leave the house without going at least way, way wackier. As it stands, this is just kind of depressing. I mean, sure, you’re rooting for [female], but it’s mostly down to pity (at least for me).
2.5 stars - yeah, maybe it has an idea, but it doesn’t know what to do with it. There’s nothing here that makes me feel like a second volume can change my mind and that’s a rare beast indeed. Not for me.
Tbh, read the whole first volume/tankoban, which was about 8ish chapters. Maybe closer to 12 chapters with all the side chapters that this manga includes. And…I was not impressed. People seem to like this series, but the characters only have vague traits for personalities and it’s all tropes that build this story and no real heart or originality. There is no hook or anything special that makes me want to keep reading. Is the female lead hot? Yes, but I can find that on plenty other manga.
If you’re on the fence about starting this series, rest easy knowing you’re okay to skip it without missing much.
I enjoyed this one. It jumped around a little to much for my liking but when I understood what was going on, it was solid. I'll be hunting for the sequel shortly.